Sentences with phrase «orbiting lab»

Three taikonauts successfully linked a spacecraft to the Tiangong - 1 orbiting lab in June, the first time a Chinese crew performed such a docking.

NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries, and it's counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start flying U.S. astronauts to the orbiting lab as early as 2017.»

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest.

International Space Station Commander Randy Bresnik has told Pope Francis his greatest joy working on the orbiting lab is being able to «see God's creation maybe a little bit from his perspective».

Then there are space station spacewalk repairs to train for, software systems to learn and docking procedures for the international fleet of robotic and crewed spaceships that visit the orbiting lab.

SpaceX holds a $ 1.6 billion NASA contract to make 12 supply flights to the orbiting lab.

Both SpaceX and Orbital Sciences are interested in carrying more than just cargo to the orbiting lab.

The docking of Dragon, a commercial supply craft, heralds easier research access and return trips home from the orbiting lab

HOUSTON — NASA's last space shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Earth.

Meanwhile, NASA has been paying Russia $ 82 million per Soyuz seat to fly to the orbiting lab ever since the agency's fleet of orbiters, which built the station, were put on display in museums and tourist destinations after the final flight of the Shuttle program in 2011.

When an orbiting lab owned by the shady Wyden Technologies explodes in space, canisters of a special neon - green gene - enhancing goo fall back to Earth, where they are promptly gobbled up by an alligator, a wolf... and our dear friend George.

This afternoon, a new crew of three astronauts will embark on a flight to the International Space Station, bringing the total number of crew on the orbiting lab to its standard size of six.